Sentence examples for western type from inspiring English sources

The Sarada script, a descendant of the western type of the Gupta character, originated in the 8th century and is still employed for Kashmiri.

They asked not for a legislative body of the Western type, still less for parliamentary government, but for a consultative assembly to advise the emperor.

Reform-minded Hindus, led by Ram Mohun Roy, took a positive attitude to Western literature and urged on their countrymen a Western type of education.

He later learned English and in 1814 settled in Calcutta (Kolkata), where he was prominent in the movement for encouraging education of a Western type.

The agency began because a friend of Ms. Owori's who is a model -- a thin, glamorous Western type -- attracted attention wearing some of the clothing that Ms. Owori, who is primarily a fashion designer, created.

It is an example of a Western type of furniture decorated with Western-painted Chinese motifs, as opposed to a piece of Western-style furniture made by the Chinese for export.

The clothes evoke a demure, under-control, decidedly non-rowdy (read: non-Western) type of woman who appreciates her role as an ornament of great value, and sits prettily and quietly in Gulfstream jets.

Family tensions, crackling over western-type campfire scenes, get projected on to the wanderers until a (literal) scapegoat gets made.

In that way specialized Western-type training was grafted onto the traditional system to produce specialists for the army.

In 1962 Iran made owners of most of the former sharecroppers, in the classic tradition of Western-type reform, mainly to create political stability.

Western-type perfumes have been produced in China only since the mid-1980s, said Bill Jin, manager at the PearlChem Corporation in Parsippany, N.J., an importer and distributor of perfume raw materials.